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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Donald Knuth Was Framed
  practices
  Comments
• Fuchsia Programming Language Policy
  osdev plt
  Comments
• What's in your Jargon File?
  ask culture
  Comments
• Cloudflare compares AMD and Intel CPUs for performance and power use
  hardware performance
  Comments
• Bastion - distributed, fault tolerant system for Rust
  erlang rust
  Comments
• Modern, functional Common Lisp: Myths and best practices
  lisp
  Comments
• Securing Firefox with WebAssembly
  programming security
  Comments
• The new code formatter for Erlang: rebar3 format
  show erlang release
  Comments
• Pointer magic for efficient dynamic value representations [AKA “NaN tagging”] (2012)
  c performance
  Comments
• Math is your insurance policy
  ai math plt programming
  Comments
• Patching nVidia GPU driver for hot-unplug on Linux
  hardware programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Python in Production
  python
  Comments
• You don't need to work on hard problems
  culture
  Comments
• Shrine - A TempleOS distro for heretics
  osdev
  Comments
• Haiku Alpha 1: Rebirth of legend
  design osdev
  Comments
• Rust/WinRT coming soon
  rust windows
  Comments
• Origami Butterfly: Adventures with Flexible PCB
  hardware
  Comments
• The ReiserFS filesystem
  osdev
  Comments
• Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me
  person web
  Comments
• What makes a code base good for junior engineers to work on?
  ask practices
  Comments
• OpenSMTPD 6.6.4p1 released addressing CRITICAL vulnerability
  release security
  Comments
• Introduction to Sorting Networks
  compsci visualization
  Comments
• Webmail providers (and others) hiding user IPs was the right decision
  email privacy
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Daily Life with Offline OpenBSD Laptop
  openbsd
  Comments
• Internet in a box
  hardware networking
  Comments
• ZenithOS - a modernized, professional fork of the 64-bit Temple Operating System
  osdev
  Comments
• Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers' Fortresses
  historical
  Comments
• RISC-V Illumos Port
  illumos
  Comments
• KASLR: Break It, Fix It, Repeat
  pdf security
  Comments
• On Emulation
  games philosophy
  Comments
• Taking care of code … more and more code
  practices
  Comments
• The Newton Application Architecture
  pdf historical plt
  Comments
• 8-Inch IBM Floppy Data Recovery of Fossil Data
  video historical
  Comments
• NetBSD Root on ZFS
  netbsd
  Comments
• Desktop of Theseus
  hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Hacking my arm prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into my synth: Thought-controlled music
  video a11y hardware
  Comments
• Reposurgeon defeats all monsters
  go vcs
  Comments
• New project, new tech stack?
  practices
  Comments
• pa'i: hello world
  rust wasm
  Comments
• Thoughts on performance & optimization
  performance practices
  Comments
• Overthinking it and the value of simple solutions
  clojure scaling
  Comments
• The Mandelbrot set in SQL
  databases
  Comments
• Myst (or, The Drawbacks to Success)
  art games historical
  Comments
• Yes silver bullet
  practices
  Comments
• SwiftUI defaults considered harmful
  plt rant swift
  Comments
• Toward Semantic Foundations for Program Editors
  pdf compsci
  Comments
• Run Windows, Android, and more in a virtual machine on your iPhone and iPad
  ios virtualization
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Discord Is Not An Acceptable Choice For Free Software Projects
  privacy rant
  Comments
• How to do High-Bar Code Review Without Being a Jerk
  practices
  Comments
• plausibly deniable encryption
  crypto
  Comments
• spotify-backup download your spotify albums and playlists in json format
  show rust
  Comments
• Suspicious discontinuities
  finance
  Comments
• Compiling a Mac OS 8 application on macOS Sierra
  historical mac
  Comments
• Bypass Windows 10 User Group Policy (and more) with this One Weird Trick
  security windows
  Comments
• Why Go gets exceptions right (2012)
  go
  Comments
• Hacker Test History
  culture historical
  Comments
• What are spiking neural networks, and why are they the future?
  ai
  Comments
• Can You Use FreeBSD for a Developer Machine in 2020?
  programming unix
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Working with strings in Rust
  c rust
  Comments
• Stop Using Encrypted Email
  email rant security
  Comments
• Rqlite
  databases distributed
  Comments
• Racket-on-Chez Status: February 2020
  lisp
  Comments
• 500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format
  graphics osdev
  Comments
• The Development of the C Language (1993)
  c historical
  Comments
• Quibble -- a custom Windows bootloader
  windows
  Comments
• Programming metaphors for theological concepts
  databases go javascript philosophy php python rust
  Comments
• Agda vs. Coq vs. Idris
  formalmethods plt
  Comments
• Floating Point Visually Explained
  programming
  Comments
• Why SQLite succeeded as a database with Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite
  audio transcript databases practices
  Comments
• Fixing memory leaks in web applications
  performance web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Fucking laptops
  hardware rant
  Comments
• We decided to leave AWS
  devops email
  Comments
• How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet
  networking
  Comments
• "Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983"
  historical rant
  Comments
• Ubuntu SSH Ads (2018)
  linux privacy
  Comments
• Open Offices Inhibit Remote Work
  practices
  Comments
• Why designing for open source can be so difficult
  design practices
  Comments
• Latinendian vs Arabendian
  programming
  Comments
• Challenge: Help the Firefox Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug
  browsers debugging
  Comments
• Larry Tesler, the Apple employee who invented cut, copy, paste, dies at 74
  design historical person
  Comments
• Color Spaces
  design visualization
  Comments
• A Simple CPU
  hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Sherbet: an ergonomic gaming keypad
  hardware
  Comments
• Koushin, a simple and extensible webmail client written in Go
  email go web
  Comments
• Skyscraper, a Clojure scraping framework that helps you build structured dumps of whole sites
  show clojure release
  Comments
• Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating systems
  osdev plt
  Comments
• Elixir and Postgres: A Rarely Mentioned Problem
  databases elixir
  Comments
• Web Programming in SWI Prolog
  web
  Comments
• i3wm 4.18 released
  release
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Kickstarter Employees Win Historic Union Election
  culture
  Comments
• Devil's Dictionary of Programming
  satire
  Comments
• Mining my mailbox for top email service providers
  email
  Comments
• How to back up your password manager
  security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Computers can be understood
  compsci philosophy
  Comments
• Hover a mouse over a link - just don't trust the results
  browsers security
  Comments
• cozette -- A bitmap programming font optimized for coziness
  design
  Comments
• Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch, by strangling it
  practices programming
  Comments
• Why talk about compensation?
  culture
  Comments
• tycrek/degoogle - Cutting Google out of your life
  privacy security
  Comments
• Pay Up, Or We’ll Make Google Ban Your Ads
  email privacy web
  Comments
• South Korea switching their 3.3 million PCs to Linux
  linux
  Comments
• What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell 2.5
  haskell
  Comments
• Advice about typography when presenting code on a website?
  ask web
  Comments
• Thought Experiment: An Introductory Compilers Class
  compilers education
  Comments
• Calculating Pi: My attempt at breaking the Pi World Record
  math
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Rust
  philosophy rust
  Comments
• 3 tribes of programming
  philosophy programming
  Comments
• C++20 is Done
  c++ plt
  Comments
• I implemented 'defer' for c
  show c
  Comments
• A Loveletter to the Atari Lynx
  games historical
  Comments
• But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction. (2018)
  video education math
  Comments
• Open access journals get a boost from librarians—much to Elsevier’s dismay
  science
  Comments
• Ironsides - DNS server made with Ada SPARK
  formalmethods
  Comments
• Lingua::Romana::Perligata -- Perl for the XXIimum Century
  perl
  Comments
• Experiences moving from tests to strong typing?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Situated Software
  practices programming
  Comments
• Figuring out RAM and bus timing in a 6502 toy computer
  video hardware
  Comments